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294. Eugenics: Flawed Thinking Behind Pushed Science | Alex Story
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
What Do You Think We Should Have Done With Down Syndrome?
When Joshua was born and we took him home the initial question that anybody and everybody asked was didn't you know he had Down syndrome. And so this discovery that suddenly my son was the subject of speculation about whether he ought to remain alive or not made me think very very profoundly in my view. So this question which keeps coming back even now I think was the seed of some kind of thought process that led me to the study of eugenics. Or at least trying to understand where this ideology comes from. But accidents sometimes can be very good for somebody in the sense that Joshua I think may be a much much better person than I was before.
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